Symphonie Diagonale, Viking Eggeling.

As I had never seen one of these hypnotic and beautifully alive works of animation before, I suppose it is no surprise that Viking Eggeling’s abstract film was one of my highlights from the excellent Van Doesburg and the International Avant Garde exhibition at Tate Modern in May 2010 year.

His experiments with marking intervals of time on film are brilliantly effective; the geometric language perfectly evoking rhythm and dynamic.